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The relics of Rome containing all such matters of religion, as have in times…The reliques of Rome contayning all such matters of religion, as haue in times…
The relics of Rome containing all such matters of religion, as have in times past been brought into the Church by the Pope and his adherents: faithfully gathered out of the most faithful writers of chronicles and histories, and now newly both diligently corrected & greatly augmented, to the singular profit of the readers, by Thomas Becon. 1563.The reliques of Rome contayning all such matters of religion, as haue in times past bene brought into the Church by the Pope and his adherentes: faithfully gathered out of the moste faithful writers of chronicles and histories, and nowe newly both diligently corrected & greatly augmented, to the singuler profit of the readers, by Thomas Becon. 1563.
London: printed by John Day, 1563London: printed by Iohn Day, 1563
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Pope Innocent the third assembled at Rome in the council Lateran a wonderful1 swarm of spiritual smeared shorelinges to the number of .xii. hundred and odd, whereof .viii. hundred at the least were monks, fryers, canons, and such other monkish monsters, which with one consent for the maintenance of their beastly idleness & idle beastliness, devised & confirmed the doctrine of transubstantiation, making it an article of our faith to believe in pain of ⟨image 128⟩damnation, that after the priest hath whispered over the bread & wine a few latin words, as Hoc est enim corpus meum. Hic est enim sanguis meus &c: the bread is turned into the natural body of Christ, flesh, blood & bone, sinews, guts & loins, even as he was borne of Mary the Virgin, and hanged on the cross. Again the wine is turned into the very natural blood of Christ, which he received of Mary the Virgin, as it was shed for our redemption on the cross, no substance of bread and wine remaining, but the very substance of bread & wine turned unto the natural substance of the body & blood of Christ, only the accidents of bread & wine remaining, this monster of transubstantiation was hatched and brought forth by Antichrist and his chaplains. In the year, &c. 1215. Decret. de summa trinitate, Cap. Firmiter.
Pope Innocent the third assembled at Rome in the councell Laterane a wonderfull1 swarme of spirituall smeared shorelinges to the number of .xii. hundred and odde, wherof .viii. hundred at the least wer monkes, fryers, chanons, and such other monkyshe monstures, which with one consent for ye maintenaunce of theyr beastly idlenesse & idle beastlinesse, deuised & confyrmed ye doctrine of transubstātiatiō, making it an article of our faith to beleue in payn of ⟨image 128⟩damnation, that after the prieste hath whispered ouer ye bread & wine a fewe latine words, as Hoc est enim corpus meum. Hic est enim sanguis meus &c: the bread is turned into the natural bodye of Christ, fleshe, bloud & bone, sinowes, guttes & loynes, euen as he was borne of Mary the Uirgine, and hanged on ye crosse. Agayne the wine is turned into ye very naturall bloud of Christ, which he receaued of Mary the Uirgine, as it was shedde for our redemption on the crosse, no substance of bread and wine remayning, but the very substance of bread & wine turned vnto the naturall substance of the body & bloud of Christ, onely ye accidentss of bread & wine remaining, this monsture of transubstā tiation was hatched and brought forth by Antichrist and his chaplaynes. In the yeare, &c. 1215. Decret. de summa trinitate, Cap. Firmiter.